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I swear, I am moving to Europe just for the commertials 😀
That was by far the best cameo EVER
Were those rocks… erm… “doing it” across the road?
boulder sex????????
#2 is right. That was the real WTF moment.
Piedras de reproducción…
#5, Piedras EN reproducción (Rocks reproducing).
What cameo?
What cameo? Maybe I’m just blind.
Cameo? You mean Richard Clayderman?
WTF? You can say that again, WTF?
FFS! Can NO-ONE read the subtitles?
Yes, “A wounded superhero. The reprodction of two rocks. Some distracting cyclists. And Richard Clayderman playing his white brake-less piano”.
I suspect it’s supposed to be a bit surreal/dada like the Tooheys “Big Ad.” (oh, you Northern hemisphericals haven’t seen it yet? Go seek it out, it’ll change your life – and make you careful about jumping over a fence in a nightie).
Oop! “Big Ad.” is Carlton, not Tooheys – may bad.
yup, it made me say “WTF”, as in “who the f#$% is richard clayderman”. i had to wiki him. still never heard of him, but at least i know he’s supposed to be behind a piano.
funky commercial. i’ll stick w/ rewinding to the bikers…
… have to admit … I would have said WTF even without the cameo …
Claderman…looked like John Tesh to me….
#15,,my thought exactly,john tesh,that’s who i think it is..
The only Wtf I saw was what looked like the Mach 5 at the very very end. Everything else seemed like normal European wackiness.
but then I’m just a dumb American 😉
#12 Oop! “Big Ad.” is Carlton, not Tooheys – may bad.
But, it is a funny ad.
Saw it via link from a 3D website, since they used the same software – Massive – for the computer-generated crowds that was used for the “Lord of the Rings” battle sequences.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_(software)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlton_Draught:_Big_Ad
Oh yeah, the company that did “post production” for the Carlton “Big Ad” have a nice version to watch on their website.
None of the crappy compression you’d get on Gootube.
http://www.animallogic.com/
Mike, that’s an helluva site too.
Whoa, I am a Spanish regular visitor to this site and I didn’t expect to find this here… It is indeed wacky, the ad became very popular for it.
By the way, some translations could be waaaay simpler, like “nieve” (snow – “snowflakes” = “copos de nieve”) , “jabones” (bars of soap), “una vaca sorda” (a deaf cow), “rocas en reproducción” (mating rocks)…